Carpet

[Fran Blacker]

Have you tried a utility knife? You cut on the back not on carpet side. The backer is a different animal.

 

[AR67GTX]

Got everything fitted except for sill trimming which I’ll probably wait on until the seats are in. I didn’t have to trim as much as I thought - just an inch or so on the pass side. There was enough room below the heater and under the firewall insulation on the driver side to take the extra length. The slice for the accelerated lever got off alignment a little and ended up having to take a narrow pie shaped piece out to clear it. Can’t really tell without getting your nose up there to peer at it if even then.

 

[gtx6970]

Those razor type carpet knives work EXTREMLY well . Much better than any Utility knife can or will
Just be very careful, you can loose a finger real quick

 

[Sam69sat]

Those razor type carpet knives work EXTREMLY well . Much better than any Utility knife can or will
Just be very careful, you can loose a finger real quick

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Yep, they work good. They'll also slice through your finger like a hot knife through butter. Don't ask me how i know.

 

[AR67GTX]

One thing I noticed on my new ACC carpet from Legendary, I had an uneven surface in the rear footwell on the driver side near the outer sill riser. After lifting the carpet up to see what was causing I found the jute underlayment stopped 6” from the sill riser. I went to the pass side rear foot box which laid down smooth and the jute extended all the way to the sill riser. Finding this strange I went to look at the old carpet I removed which I know was at least 25 years old, possibly quite a bit more, and the jute underlayment was exactly the same - short on the driver side. Very strange they would do something obviously not right for decades.

Anyway I skinned a 6” wide strip of jute off the old carpet and laid it under the carpet to fill in the underlayment to the sill and now it looks good.

1 also had a wrinkle on the pass side, front foot well where one of the floor ribs ties into the door sill. Looking at it I found the jute was extended too far and rode part way up on the rib creating a small hump and wrinkle. Skinned some of that back so that it stops at the rib and it’s laying down smoother now.